Miha

“Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.”
― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

“Symmetry is only a property of dead things. Did you ever see a tree or a mountain that was symmetrical? It’s fine for buildings, but if you ever see a symmetrical human face, you will have the impression that you ought to think it beautiful, but that in fact you find it cold. The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry, Kyria Pelagia. Look at your face in a mirror, Signorina, and you will see that one eyebrow is a little higher than the other, that the set of the lid of your left eye is such that the eye is a fraction more open that the other. It is these things that make you both attractive and beautiful, whereas…otherwise you would be a statue. Symmetry is for God, not for us.”
― Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin

“When I had lived in this world for twenty years, I understood that it was a world worth living in.At twenty-five I realized that light and dark are sides of the same coin; that wherever the sun shines, shadows too must fall.Now, at thirty, here is what I think:where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.If you try to sever the two, life falls apart.Try to control them, and you will meet with failure.Money is essential, but with the increase of what is essential to you, anxieties will invade you even in sleep.Love is a happy thing, but as this happy love swells and grows heavy, you will yearn instead for the happy days before love came into your life.”
― Natsume Sōseki,Kusamakura

“The memory of having sat at someone's feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro